"Hot Breakfast" by benchen71

Can you storm the castle by getting across the MOAT? A weekly meta crossword constructed by forum member Ben (aka benchen71). These metas range from relatively easy to more challenging, depending on how many Australianisms he puts in them! Puzzles are posted in a new thread every Tuesday, with nudges appearing on Saturdays, and the solution coming out on Mondays. (At least, that's the plan. Given he lives in Australia, and they are so far ahead of the US time-zone-wise, things may get posted early!)
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Thank you, Ben - solved and submitted
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Talk about a typo… I meant to use shark on the crosshare site but I typed Shart instead. Oh well, I guess it was unexpected.
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My kind of breakfast. (Ding Dong and a sausage.)
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sharkicicles wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:31 pm Talk about a typo… I meant to use shark on the crosshare site but I typed Shart instead. Oh well, I guess it was unexpected.
Let me fix that... :D
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sharkicicles wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:31 pm Talk about a typo… I meant to use shark on the crosshare site but I typed Shart instead. Oh well, I guess it was unexpected.
They usually are...
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Pole vaulted over the moat. Fun.
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Bridge lowered!

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Stormed
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I have Berry-ed the Fillion.
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Here are the additional solvers (40 so far!)

CPJohnson
BrennerTJ
KayW
LuckyGuest
Capn Rick
MarkWoychick
spikeydlux
Bbaack
Darth
Julia
clev
Dow Jones
lbray53
Joe Ross
dudeski
Abide
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I have stormed the castle. I didn't even know that the White Castle served breakfast. (btw, the lovely woman in the photo Ben included lives in my building, and I know her to say hello. How we met is a funny story, too long for here, but maybe if there's a lull in the Zoom...
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Bird Lives wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:47 pm I have stormed the castle. I didn't even know that the White Castle served breakfast. (btw, the lovely woman in the photo Ben included lives in my building, and I know her to say hello. How we met is a funny story, too long for here, but maybe if there's a lull in the Zoom...
Carol Kane is the best! I also loved her in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Next time you see her, nod at her for me!
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Here's the third installement of the leaderboard, bringing us to a total of 52 successful solvers this week, and all before nudges!:

THC
K7
DIS
Bird Lives
shalmanezer
Jack Sullivan
downie
pav
LB800
CalRy
sus
Golem
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Speaking of nudges, it's Saturday morning here in the great city of Melbourne where yesterday we ended yet another period of lockdown, bringing the total days in lockdown to 262. (I might go out later with the family and travel further than 10kms from our home!) If your hot breakfast is eluding you, hopefully this will get you started:

1. 1 A, 34 A and 67 A combine to form the hint.

2. The hint is EGGS OVER EASY.

3. "EASY" sounds like something else.

4. Goodness, but there are a lot of Zs in this grid!
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Here are the last solvers before I post the answers, bring us up to a grand total of 58:

bereolos
ellequin
BarbaraK
Bbaack
BobJas
bergie

Well done to everyone!
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And here's the solution...

Hot Breakfast (solution).png

A few people commented that it appeared the eggs had been scrambled. But there was an order to it, based on the length of the "EZ" words.

This week's MOAT will be on the scary side!
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here. US$10 for 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, who knows. And this time there's a mega-meta! :shock:
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benchen71 wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 5:45 pm And here's the solution...


Hot Breakfast (solution).png


A few people commented that it appeared the eggs had been scrambled. But there was an order to it, based on the length of the "EZ" words.

This week's MOAT will be on the scary side!
At first I was looking for the letters over the Os (eggs). Good puzzle, thanks!
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